I have an octoberfest brewing currently and tomorrow is its one month in the carboy but I wont be able to bottle for another week. I would think that since its sealed up it would stay fine for a little while right? Its still sealed up with the airlock but isnt bubbling no more which brings me to my next question...Will the beer be fine sitting another week sealed up while not producing co2? Side note: since its not bubbling im assuming the yeast went dormant? (and not dead 0_o...) and hopefully will spring to life when i go to bottle? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

I have an octoberfest brewing currently and tomorrow is its one month in the carboy but I wont be able to bottle for another week. I would think that since its sealed up it would stay fine for a little while right? Its still sealed up with the airlock but isnt bubbling no more which brings me to my next question...Will the beer be fine sitting another week sealed up while not producing co2? Side note: since its not bubbling im assuming the yeast went dormant? (and not dead 0_o...) and hopefully will spring to life when i go to bottle? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance guys
-Larry

Totally fine.

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Yup...should be fine. Plenty of living yeast still in there too, so you shouldn't need to worry about going to the bottles. If you want to reassure yourself though, you can always suck up a little of the yeast cake when you transfer the beer to the bottling bucket.

Yup...should be fine. Plenty of living yeast still in there too, so you shouldn't need to worry about going to the bottles. If you want to reassure yourself though, you can always suck up a little of the yeast cake when you transfer the beer to the bottling bucket.

Sounds like it would be fine without but ill probably add some like you said just to make sure. Thanks for the responses

Saw no need to mess with it so it stayed like it did for the past month...undisturbed. Everything smelled as it should have when I opened it to siphon out. Got it all bottled , should know in about 8 days if it naturally carbonated or not.

I didnt use a lager yeast. The recipe I went with called for the WLP810 Lager yeast but I used a higher temp ale yeast because my chest freezer ended itself and I have no other freezer available to get it down to lager temps. It stayed at about 72 degrees for the 5 weeks it was in the carboy.

Saw no need to mess with it so it stayed like it did for the past month...undisturbed. Everything smelled as it should have when I opened it to siphon out. Got it all bottled , should know in about 8 days if it naturally carbonated or not.

I didnt use a lager yeast. The recipe I went with called for the WLP810 Lager yeast but I used a higher temp ale yeast because my chest freezer ended itself and I have no other freezer available to get it down to lager temps. It stayed at about 72 degrees for the 5 weeks it was in the carboy.

Thanks for the feedback guys

8 days is probably too soon to know if it is sufficiently carbed. I guess you will have some indication if there is some carbonation or not...but it will take longer than that to reach your final carbonation level.